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Price to rise for recreation passports bought at parks

The Associated Press
Published 11:57 a.m. ET Dec. 25, 2017

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If you get a passport along with your vehicle registration, the fee is $11.

But beginning Jan. 1, you’ll be charged an additional $5 if you wait to buy a passport until you show up at a state park. That adds up to $16, which is the rate charged by the secretary of state’s office for a recreation passport purchased outside the annual vehicle registration renewal cycle.

For more information about the passport system, visit http://michigan.gov/recreationpassport.

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